Green plastic ring binder measuring 250x290mm, containing prints mounted either with sellotape strips or inserted in slits in the page, with typescript captions beneath. A few have been hand-coloured. The majority of the photographs are modern prints made from the original negatives. The file forms a reference copy of the illustrations used in Teague-Jones' posthumously published 'The Spy Who Disappeared' (London 1990). Although the title of the files gives the covering dates of 1918-22, the photographs themselves appear to cover the earlier par of this period, from 1918-19.

After the withdrawal of Russian troops from Persia and the Caucasus following the Bolshevik coup of October 1917, Teague-Jones was given the task of assessing which groups of Non-Bolshevik Russians of indigenous peoples would support the Allies against the possibility of german and Turkish forces overrunning Persia, the Caucasus and Transcaspia. Teague-Jones entered Transcaspia from Meshed disguised as a Persian merchant and travelled along the Central Asian Railway to Krasnovodsk on the eastern shore of the Caspian. He then crossed to Baku in order to set up an intelligence network in the area

Our Military Attache, Col. Redl, and his wife lived very comfortably in the M.A.'s house in the Consulate grounds, so comfortably, indeed, that the War and events beyond the mountains in Transcaspia, seemed very remote.